NCAA: Committee on Infractions could not conclude UNC violated NCAA rules

[tcf15]

 

[UConnSwag11]

Lol omg!!

 

[jrazz12]

UConn should be filing suit against the NCAA today for the APR horsesh..

 

[awfuldan]

Burn the NCAA down.

I hope the FBI arrests them all.

 

[Jerry1714]

I wish I could say I was surprised......

 

[AntG168]

LOL

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[Ts5034]

This really is sickening.

 

[tcf15]

"While student athletes likely benefited from the courses"... isn't that still a violation?

 

[UConnStats]

This proves without a shadow of any doubt that UConn was punished incredibly excessively for their APR.

This is offensive to all the students who bust their asses to get good grades at UNC too.

The overall lack of integrity shown by the NCAA here is just another embarrassment. Maybe they should have let the FBI handle this one, too.

 

[Mano]

What freaking garbage.

 

[ElPresidente]

I really hope today is April 1st and tomorrow morning we get the real verdit!

 

[lavuuk153]

"While student athletes likely benefited from the courses"... isn't that still a violation?

Can boosters start paying for high school recruits as long as they also pay some regular students too?

 

[UConnSwag11]

Did Comey lead the investigation?!

 

[UConnSwag11]

"While student athletes likely benefited from the courses"... isn't that still a violation?

Did Comey lead the investigation?!

 

[CL82]

"While student athletes likely benefited from the courses"... isn't that still a violation?

By framing UNCs issue as a "benefits issue" rather than "an ineligible player issue" The NCAA gave itself wiggle room not to punish North Carolina. The unescapable truth is that UNC used academic fraud to allow ineligible players to play. The penalty for that is forfeiture of games. The NCAA's decision today ratifies cheating and academic fraud while sanctioning those who accurately report the grades of their student athletes.

We really need one of the horde to step up and lead the charge on this. I could pretty much guarantee that if someone calls this out for what it is, as stated above, they are going to receive national media coverage. This is particularly true if you look at the whole history of the matter where the NCAA originally sent in North Carolina alum to do it to review and then after media scrutiny shed light on that we started a new review while continuing to let North Carolina compete. It is clear that there are two sets of rules for NCAA. For the powerful athletic institutions compliance with NCAA rules are optional in to no one surprise these institutions opt to ignore them.

Given the current FBI scrutiny of college athletics this is the kind of story that will explode nationally and it is certainly within Jeff Jacobs wheelhouse to be able to write it in write it well. I hope he picks it up.

 

[Kmba2Rmemba]

Hipocracy within the NCAA is sickening

 

[Kemba429]

It says that they still benefited however, so did everyone..........

 

[Jimdish255]

Another tragic day for College Athletics led by the stooges at the NCAA.
By their (inaccurate and insane) logic this would also be true.

 

[ctchamps]

This was not a slap on the wrist for UNC. This was a kick in the UConn gonads.

Apr my sass.

 

[TRest]

Who is going to read this decision to the illiterate UNC grads?

The punishment should have been forcing their entire athletic department into science or math majors. What a joke.

 

[upstater]

There are actual transcripts and recordings of the basketball coaching staff discussing the fake courses with the counselors!

How in the world do they say there is no evidence the coaches knew?

 

[jrazz12]

 

[Bagel&Cheese]

Preposterous but not surprising.

 

[AreBee1969]

I think we all expected this, but my expectations didn't curb my rage or the bile rising in the back of my throat.

At a time that the NCCA really needed to show some spine, they proved their gutlessness.